Mac App Store will restrict Mountain Lion downloads — Mac App Store will assess your Mac's suitability for the new operating system before it lets you download, and pay, for it — Like OS X Lion, when Mountain Lion launches later this month it will be sold via the Mac App Store.

RIM CEO on What Went Wrong and the Future of BlackBerry — In an exclusive Q&A, CIO.com's Al Sacco chats with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins on the current state of BlackBerry and how it fell from grace, what the company is doing to ensure things in Waterloo don't get worse, and the product delay problems that have plagued RIM.

Bringing Craigslist Back — I've been wrestling with whether to bring back Craigslist listings in the search results. I've found a way to include them that I'm told is legally kosher since it doesn't touch their servers at all, but it still seems somewhat dickish to go against their wishes in this …

About the future of Thunderbird — Jb Piacentino — Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Jb Piacentino, the managing Director of Thunderbird, following the recent Thunderbird announcement. — TN : Hi Jb, I read on the Web that Thunderbird is dead. Is it true or is the rumor of Thunderbird's death greatly exaggerated?

Google Nexus 7 Tablet on Sale: Staples Takes Pre-Orders — Staples says it will carry the Google Nexus 7 tablet in its brick-and-mortar stores later this month, and that Google's 7-inch Android tablet is now available for pre-sale on its website. — The office-supply retailer's site …

Eric Schmidt: The Great Firewall of China will fall — Technology and information penetration in China will eventually force the Great Firewall of China to crumble and even lead to the political opening of the Chinese system, according to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.

Software Inventory — Imagine, for a moment, that you came upon a bread factory for the first time. At first it just looks like a jumble of incomprehensible machinery with a few people buzzing around. As your eyes adjust you start to see little piles of things that you do understand.

TED Books launches iOS store, with subscriptions — Conference organization TED already publishes ebooks. Now it is selling them through a new app, Ted Books for iOS. Readers can also buy subscriptions. — TED's book apps is built on the platform developed by Brooklyn-based publisher and developer Atavist.

Google, FTC Near Settlement on Privacy — Google Inc. is close to a deal to pay $22.5 million to settle charges related to its surreptitious bypassing of the privacy settings of millions of Apple Inc. users, according to officials briefed on the settlement terms.

Speech recognition anyone? AT&T opens up Watson API — Look out Nuance Communications, there's a new speech recognition player in town. Nuance can't simply buy up this potential competitor as it has in the past since this company happens to be AT&T. Ma Bell has taken the locks off …

Reddit lifts its ban on “The Atlantic” — The Atlantic has returned to Reddit. — A month after the social news site kicked out the news magazine and dozens of other sites —including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Discovery News—for spam, Reddit has welcomed many back into the warm embrace of its monster traffic, with little fanfare.

How Big Music Threatened Startups and Killed Innovation — By interviewing 31 CEOs, company founders and VPs who operated in the digital music scene during the past 10 years, Associate Professor Michael A. Carrier at Rutgers University School of Law has produced a most enlightening report …

Firefox Developer: ‘Everybody Hates Firefox Updates’ — Look, Yet Another Firefox Update. Screenshot: Webmonkey — Mozilla's Jono DiCarlo has come out to say what many a Firefox user has long been thinking: the rapid release cycle is killing Firefox. — DiCarlo has a long …